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Big Pharma
UK-based biopharmaceutical company Shire is assessing the potential to spin off its neuroscience franchise. 4 August 2017
Americas
A Massachusetts jury has awarded technology company Philips $10.4 million but also fined it $3.3 million in a seven-year patent infringement lawsuit against Zoll Medical. 4 August 2017
Americas
Boehringer Ingelheim has infringed 74 of AbbVie’s patents relating to arthritis medication Humira (adalimumab), AbbVie has alleged. 3 August 2017
Americas
Enzo Biochem and Yale University have lost their appeal in a dispute centring on one of their DNA detection and identification patents. 3 August 2017
Americas
Drugs maker Endo Pharmaceuticals has accused Lupin Atlantis, a subsidiary of Lupin, of patent infringement. 2 August 2017
Asia-Pacific
China has launched an IP rights protection centre aimed at providing protection for the biopharmaceutical and high-end manufacturing industries. 2 August 2017
Americas
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has hired Kandace Watson, a lawyer with experience representing companies in complex transactions in IP-intensive industries. 2 August 2017
Americas
Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) has taken AstraZeneca to court over the alleged infringement of a patent for cancer treatment. 1 August 2017
Asia-Pacific
Takeda has entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with biopharmaceutical company Tesaro to develop a novel cancer therapy in Japan. 1 August 2017
Americas
The University of California, Berkeley has filed a brief at the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in its appeal against a patent decision on the CRISPR/Cas9 technology. 31 July 2017